Richard Nixon, Almost

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Richard Nixon, Almost

Patrick Symmes

Oct 13, 2020

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Here’s another clip from the Watergate Comedy Hour, a vinyl album from my parents collection. The jokes don’t always land, but it’s encouraging to hear how much the audience wants to laugh at a president dragging the United States through a constitutional crisis. Don’t miss Dr Kissinger.

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The Authoritarianism Project is a weekly newsletter on anti-democratic movements in the US and overseas, and part of my open-source research for a forthcoming book, tentatively titled "Deathsquad Democracy."

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